01134nam a2200241Ia 4500 CTU_118885 210402s9999 xx 000 0 und d 59.95 303.340945 S193 Samuels, Richard J. Machiavelli's children : Leaders and their legacies in Italy and Japan Richard J. Samuels Ithaca Cornell University Press 2003 Two late-developing nations, Japan and Italy, similarly obsessed with achieving modernity and with joining the ranks of the great powers, have traveled parallel courses with very different national identities. In this audacious book about leadership and historical choices, Richard J. Samuels emphasizes the role of human ingenuity in political change. He draws on interviews and archival research in a fascinating series of paired biographies of political and business leaders from Italy and Japan. Political leadership History Italy Truc Trung tâm Học liệu Trường Đại học Cần Thơ